Texas · New Mexico · Oklahoma
Adventure is our backyard
Trail Life USA troops across the South Plains Region — raising boys of adventure, character, and leadership in the outdoors.
One region · three states
From the Gulf surf to 13,000-foot summits — keep scrolling to fly the South Plains.
Gulf Coast
Surf rods, bay boats, and redfish. Troops trade the trail for salt air on the Texas coast.
Enchanted Rock & Hill Country
Pink granite at sunrise. Hill Country campouts and backpacking beneath the big dome.
Museum of the American G.I.
Once a year, 1,000+ Trailmen converge on College Station for a weekend of camping, activities, shooting sports, and fun.
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Camp Beacon
Our region's high adventure summer camp at Lakeview Camp in Waxahachie — a week of patrols, skills, and campfires.
Brazos & Colorado Rivers
Canoe overnights below Possum Kingdom and along the Colorado — paddle all day, camp on a sandbar, repeat.
Texas Shooting Sports
Trap shotgun, rifle events for every age group, pistol, and archery — shooting sports are what this region does best.
Wichita Mountains
Ancient granite peaks, free-roaming bison, and mountain-bike country rising straight off the plains of southwest Oklahoma.
Illinois River
Clear water over flint rock — Oklahoma's signature float through the Ozark foothills near Tahlequah.
NRA Whittington Center
33,000 acres and 25 ranges at America's premier shooting facility near Raton — every discipline we shoot, in one place, inside our region.
Sangre de Cristo High Country
Wheeler Peak, the Pecos Wilderness, alpine lakes, and 400 miles of trail — this is where the region goes to backpack the roof of New Mexico.
This is our backyard
Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma — and a calendar full of ways to get out into it.
Find your next adventureThe adventure directory
Everywhere our troops fish, float, climb, shoot, ride, and backpack — across all three states.
Gulf Coast
Surf rods, bay boats, and redfish. Troops trade the trail for salt air on the Texas coast.
Enchanted Rock & Hill Country
Pink granite at sunrise. Hill Country campouts and backpacking beneath the big dome.
Museum of the American G.I.
Once a year, 1,000+ Trailmen converge on College Station for a weekend of camping, activities, shooting sports, and fun.
Event site →Camp Beacon
Our region's high adventure summer camp at Lakeview Camp in Waxahachie — a week of patrols, skills, and campfires.
Brazos & Colorado Rivers
Canoe overnights below Possum Kingdom and along the Colorado — paddle all day, camp on a sandbar, repeat.
Texas Shooting Sports
Trap shotgun, rifle events for every age group, pistol, and archery — shooting sports are what this region does best.
Wichita Mountains
Ancient granite peaks, free-roaming bison, and mountain-bike country rising straight off the plains of southwest Oklahoma.
Illinois River
Clear water over flint rock — Oklahoma's signature float through the Ozark foothills near Tahlequah.
NRA Whittington Center
33,000 acres and 25 ranges at America's premier shooting facility near Raton — every discipline we shoot, in one place, inside our region.
Sangre de Cristo High Country
Wheeler Peak, the Pecos Wilderness, alpine lakes, and 400 miles of trail — this is where the region goes to backpack the roof of New Mexico.
Robbers Cave
Sandstone cliffs, outlaw hideouts, and trout in the Sans Bois Mountains.
Beavers Bend
Cold, clear water and pine-ridge trails at Broken Bow.
Region events
Registration and details live on each event's own site.
Canoe Adventure 2026
July 31 – August 2, 2026
Camp High Point · Mena, Arkansas
Details & registration →All-American Campout
September 25–27, 2026
Museum of the American G.I. · College Station, Texas
Event details →Trail-Ready Learner Conference
October 9–10, 2026 · Early bird $40 through August 31
Frisco Bible Church · Frisco, Texas · Adult leaders & parents
Details & registration →Night Ops
October 24–25, 2026 · Noon to noon
Anderson, Texas · Navigators & Adventurers only
Event details →Trailmen, Let's Go Shooting
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Huntsville, Texas · Navigators, Adventurers & Guidons
Event details →Camp Beacon 2027
Summer 2027 — more information to follow
Lakeview Camp · Waxahachie, Texas
Details coming soonAbout the region
The South Plains Region is home to Trail Life USA troops across Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Trail Life USA is a church-based, Christ-centered, boy-focused mentoring and discipleship journey — boys age five through seventeen growing in character, serving their communities, and developing practical leadership in the outdoors.
“...that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him...” — Colossians 1:10
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There are troops meeting all across the South Plains. Trail Life USA's official troop finder will locate the one closest to your family.
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